replace_symbol: Replace Symbols With Word Equivalents

In trinker/qdap2: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis

Description

This function replaces symbols with word equivalents (e.g. @ becomes "at".

Usage

  replace_symbol(text.var, dollar = TRUE, percent = TRUE,
    pound = TRUE, at = TRUE, and = TRUE, with = TRUE)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable.
dollar	logical. If TRUE replaces dollar sign ($) with "dollar".
percent	logical. If TRUE replaces percent sign (%) with "percent".
pound	logical. If TRUE replaces pound sign (#) with "number".
at	logical. If TRUE replaces at sign (@) with "at".
and	logical. If TRUE replaces and sign (&) with "and".
with	logical. If TRUE replaces with sign (w/) with "with".

Value

Returns a character vector with symbols replaced..

See Also

bracketX, qprep, replace_abbreviation, replace_contraction, replace_number,

Examples

x <- c("I am @ Jon's & Jim's w/ Marry",
    "I owe $41 for food",
    "two is 10% of a #")
replace_symbol(x)

trinker/qdap2 documentation built on May 31, 2019, 9:47 p.m.